Projektbeschreibung
Wissenschaftliches Neuland in der Fluorchemie erschließen
Fluor ist ein in der Chemie oft übersehener Stoff, der im Schatten des bekannteren Elements Chlor steht. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt HiPeR-F wird sich auf chemische Reaktionen mit Fluor konzentrieren, die unter extrem hohem Druck stattfinden. Im Rahmen des Projekts werden zwei spezielle experimentelle Forschungsbereiche kombiniert: die Untersuchung von Materie unter extrem hohem Druck und die Untersuchung extremer chemischer Reaktivität. Fluor unter hohem Druck stellt eine bahnbrechende Testumgebung dar, welche die Grenzen der Oxidationszustände der Elemente des Periodensystems in Frage stellt. Die neu entdeckten, unter hohem Druck synthetisierten Verbindungen könnten sehr ungewöhnliche elektronische Strukturen und exotische physikalische Eigenschaften aufweisen.
Ziel
The HiPeR-F project aims to establish a new frontier research direction – high-pressure fluorine chemistry, by method development and a merger of two highly specialised and experimentally demanding fields, namely high-pressure experiments in diamond anvil cell and inorganic fluorine chemistry. Fluorine under high pressure represents a breakthrough testing environment for challenging the oxidation-state limitations of the elements in the periodic table. Tantalizing theoretical indications have been provided recently for the existence of compounds with elements displaying unusual and exotic formal oxidation states, and even the possibility of the inner electronic shell involvement in chemical bonding. However, extreme conditions of very high pressure (in GPa range) and extreme chemical reactivity (fluorine) are required and this is currently limited to in silico investigations. Experiment lags substantially behind the theory. The experimental verification of exciting computational predictions is of paramount importance and will be pursued in HiPeR-F. Targeted compounds with elements in exotic oxidation states are at the edge of existence and are eminently difficult to synthesise, but are also of significant interest to the scientific community at large. Novel compounds obtained in high-pressure experiments could exhibit unusual electronic structures and thus exotic physical properties. High-pressure fluorochemistry thus represents a genuine new direction in modern chemistry with exciting possibilities and would enable a frontier research that would significantly advance our understanding of many facets of chemistry.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
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Finanzierungsplan
ERC-STG - Starting GrantGastgebende Einrichtung
1000 Ljubljana
Slowenien